Israel obstructs the ceasefire agreement
ISRAEL has continued to obstruct the implementation of the ceasefire agreement by linking the reopening of the Rafah crossing and the entry of humanitarian...
March Reaches Stoke
THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education campaigned at Keele University yesterday, where students bought tickets for the Meet the March...
BLAIR MUST ANSWER FOR WAR LIES say Military families against war
Rose Gentle, Susan Smith, Peter Brierley and Karla Hewett, whose sons and brother died in the Iraq war, set up a 24-hour Peace Camp...
London Bus Strike Today
BUS workers across London are on strike today over an escalating battle over pay. The 24-hour strike is over the refusal of London’s 18 bus...
Tories post-election cuts being planned!
THE UK Treasury has told senior Whitehall officials that a post-2015 election government will have to make £25bn-£30bn worth of spending cuts. Cuts are being...
Nut Opposes Gove Plans
NATIONAL Union of Teachers (NUT) leaders yesterday opposed government plans for unannounced school inspections and taking state schools out of Birmingham City Council’s control...
Hamas condemns the ongoing Israeli massacres in Gaza! Strip
THE Hamas Movement has condemned the ongoing Israeli massacres on the Gaza Strip, saying: ‘The Nazi Zionist enemy continues to brutally target civilians in...
Three Britons killed in Israel’s targeted attack on aid convoy
SEVEN aid workers from the relief group World Central Kitchen (WCK), including three Britons, were killed in a ‘targeted attack’ by the genocidal Israeli...
Police demand mass stop & search powers
HOME Secretary Sajid Javid has met police chiefs from seven forces most affected by the violent crime wave produced by the government’s decade of...
PROSECUTE THE POLICE DEATH SQUAD – say Jean Charles de Menezes family
A cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes, the young Brazilian electrician murdered by Metropolitan Police CO 19 firearms officers, yesterday demanded those responsible ‘must face...
Angry Iraqis March For Saddam
Hundreds of angry supporters of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, many of them armed, protested yesterday against his execution and blamed leading Iraqi politicians for...
‘A DELIBERATE MASSACRE’ – Lebanese Premier denounces Israeli bombing
Lebanon’s prime minister Fuad Siniora yesterday condemned the latest ‘deliberate massacre’ of over fifty innocent civilians in south Lebanon. As the UN argued over an...
UK Current Account disaster!
THE UK’s current account deficit was larger than expected in the final quarter of last year, official figures have shown. The deficit in the...
YS March for Jobs – Zero-hours contracts condemned
DAY 15 of the 248-mile Young Socialists March for Jobs from London to Liverpool saw the marchers leaving Stockport Labour Club for Manchester. They had...
Directors Declare War On Workers
TRADE unions and children’s charities have denounced calls from the Taxpayers Alliance and the Institute of Directors for the abolition of child benefit. The right-wing...
Mortgage Crisis Grips!
UNISON yesterday called on the government to build more council houses as First Direct became the first major bank to stop lending to house...
Teachers ready for further strike action from July 3rd
THE NEU (National Education Union) has written to the Secretary of State for Education ahead of its National Executive meeting on the 17 June. ‘We...
Call A General Strike Says Poa
THE TUC Congress opened in Bournemouth yesterday, to calls from the Young Socialists lobby and delegates for a General Strike, to bring...
Southern rail ‘gambling with passenger safety’ – TUC
TUC deputy general secretary Paul Novak joined RMT striking Southern rail guards on their morning picket line at London’s Victoria station yesterday. Novak told News...
The ‘Elite’ Russell Group Is Super-Exploiting Lecturers
THE UK’s so-called ‘elite Russell Group’ universities are the worst offenders when it comes to employing academics on precarious contracts, reveals a just released...
CALL FOR OCCUPATION! – as South London Trust put into Administration
HEALTH Secretary Lansley announced yesterday that he is putting South London Healthcare NHS Trust into administration. The trust was created by merging three hospitals –...
Shipbreakers Demand Action
FIFTEEN per cent of the 65,000 workers employed in scrapping ships at sites on India’s west coast are suffering from asbestosis. The shocking statistic...
Bawa-Garba Victory
DOCTOR Hadiza Bawa-Garba, who was struck off the medical register, has won a further victory and will now be allowed to start working as...
Greece Set For Massive General Strike
GREEK trade unions are set for a huge one-day general strike today against the government’s ‘Double Bill’ which destroys the state pension system, allows...
‘We need to reassure the markets’ says Truss as she sacks Chancellor Kwarteng
THE TORY party’s putrefaction continued yesterday with Prime Minister Liz Truss’ sacking of her ‘great friend’, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, followed by a four-minute statement...
Jobless Student Midwives!
More than 90 per cent of final year midwifery students are struggling to find a job, a new survey published today by the Royal...
‘It’s Time For A General Strike’ – RMT Pickets Tell News Line
RMT pickets at Elephant and Castle Underground station were joined by supporters from Unite Community and members of the public yesterday morning. RMT member Ebony...
‘Where were the bells-tolls for Grenfell?’
THE Coordinator of Justice 4 Grenfell Yvette Williams demanded yesterday, ‘Where were the bell-tolls for Grenfell?’ She contrased the bell tolls and the rush of...
‘We are asking for the pay that we lost to be returned to us!’...
ANGRY NHS workers on strike outside Barnsley hospital in South Yorkshire spoke to News Line yesterday. Ellen Newberry, deputy chair of Junior Doctors Committee (BMA),...
Ambulance Cuts Are Costing Lives!
EAST of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) management operated a policy of downgrading target response times for 999 emergency calls from December 18th...
Lib Dems Vote For Ananti-Brexit Coup!
THE LIBDEMS voted for an anti-Brexit coup at their conference in Bournemouth yesterday, pledging to revoke Article 50, reversing their previous policy of campaigning...
‘Heinous’ Israeli Crime Condemned
THE Israeli army and Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah traded fire across the border yesterday, stoking fears that the war in Gaza could spark a...
GET TROOPS OUT NOW! says Rose Gentle
‘We want Tony Blair to bring the troops out – not in six months but now, to prevent more loss of life’, Rose Gentle,...
Visteon Talks Delay!
SACKED Visteon workers yesterday said that they had stopped 17 employees of the liquidator, KPMG, entering the plant in the morning who were seeking...
Mass Picket At The National Gallery
THE opening of the long-awaited Velázquez exhibition was disrupted yesterday, as 140 non-shift attendants walked out for the first one-day strike in the 200-year...
Burnham Moves To Rescue The Tories
ANDY Burnham, the shadow health secretary, met with around 40 representatives of leading NHS organisations on Wednesday night, to discuss Labour policy for the...
Bma White Paper ‘Concerns’
THE BMA has been shocked and shaken by the resistance of its members to the Tory-LibDem NHS White Paper which seeks to make GPs...
Prosecute Netanyahu For Fraud Demands Tel Aviv Mass Rally
Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday against moves by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to secure immunity from prosecution on fraud...
CHILDREN GOING TO SCHOOL HUNGRY
‘THIS report rightly blames the government’s austerity agenda, including cuts to support services and children’s centres, for limiting the educational potential of disadvantaged young...
3,700 Palestinians killed in 60 days
THE Israeli military has continued its intensive land, air and sea aggression on northern Gaza for 60 days now, during which 2,400 of the...
10,000 Bt Job Cuts!
The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) yesterday said that job cuts in BT ‘must not be met through compulsion’ and pledged it will ‘oppose any...
Tories want GPs to do their cuts dirty work!
The coalition government is pressing ahead with plans to make GP practices responsible for purchasing health care in England, replacing Primary Care Trusts and...
The back of the Zionist regime will be broken – Iran
IRAN will ‘break the back’ of the Israeli regime and continue with its retaliatory military operations against the Zionist aggressors, its defence ministry vowed...
5,000 march on Battle of Cable Street 90th Anniversary
UP TO 5,000 workers, local families and youth gathered outside Tower Hamlets Town Hall on the Whitechapel Road in east London for the march...
GM withdraws Europe loan applications
General Motors announced yesterday that Opel/Vauxhall ‘have decided to withdraw all applications for government loan guarantees across Europe’. The GM statement said: ‘There have been...